Lodestar Portfolio Customization

tangcheyenne · Member · Jun 26, 2017 at 4:11 pm
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How do you customize the Lodestar portfolio page so that the type shows as links at the top with the corresponding photos at the bottom (as shown in the demo site)? My projects show as rectangles and when you click it, it opens as a post.

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dave2swords · Member · Jun 26, 2017 at 4:41 pm
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Hi!

How do you customize the Lodestar portfolio page so that the type shows as links at the top with the corresponding photos at the bottom (as shown in the demo site)?

Learning new stuff sure can be fun! there are some really nice photos on your site by the way :)

Much of setting up Lodestar like the demo page is found in the theme’s page – many of the different sections talk about just this very thing. You could start by referring back to that page:
https://wordpress.com/theme/lodestar

You can also learn the intricacies of Portfolios in:
https://en.support.wordpress.com/portfolios/
and
https://en.support.wordpress.com/portfolios/making-the-most-of-your-portfolio/

There is a way to have the nice WordPress folks make your site just like the demo, but you have to ask them (nicely please). Before you do, i strongly recommend doing a backup of your site by Exporting all the content to your computer.

Make sure you have all of your photos stashed away somewhere as well.best,
dave
tangcheyenne · Member · Jun 26, 2017 at 6:21 pm
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Thanks for your help!
dave2swords · Member · Jun 26, 2017 at 6:37 pm
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You are welcome!
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justjennifer · Member · Jun 26, 2017 at 7:05 pm
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@tangcheyenne – Hi there, in Lodestar, use the portfolio page template so the links show at the top. Here’s more about enabling page templates: https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/page-options/#template

Let us know if you need any further help with setting up your site.
tangcheyenne · Member · Jun 27, 2017 at 3:18 pm
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Thanks! @justjennifer
justjennifer · Member · Jun 27, 2017 at 3:22 pm
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You’re most welcome!
andersonecomp091 · Member · Jul 2, 2017 at 4:13 pm
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Even though I have choosen the lodestar portfolio them for the page, it is not working… should I have to install any plugin to get it working?
kokkieh · Staff · Jul 3, 2017 at 11:20 am
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@andersonecomp091

Can you please provide a link to the site you need help with? Then we can take a look.

@dave2swords

There is a way to have the nice WordPress folks make your site just like the demo, but you have to ask them (nicely please)

That is not a very good way of explaining this. With some themes we can set it up automatically with demo content like in the theme demo, but this involves emptying the site, cannot be done with all themes, and cannot be reversed.
drjburrito · Member · Jul 3, 2017 at 11:38 am
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@kiikieh:
Might be worth saying you can “set like the demo site is available” on the themes that is is possible to do this on? Possible help topic perhaps.

Of course that would be added work for the HEs unless there was a way to automate the process

d2s
kokkieh · Staff · Jul 3, 2017 at 12:32 pm
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We do not plan on doing that, no. The best option is still to follow the theme’s instructions to set up the site. That way you learn how things work and don’t need help again the next time you switch themes.

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